Mohaned Abdulla was only eleven years old at the time filming began on Tzeva Adom: Color Red. This is his first on screen appearance. He speaks fluent Arabic as well as English. Mohaned and his family are originally from Baghdad, Iraq and moved to California. In addition to school, Mohaned enjoys playing the guitar and being on social media.

Dr. Thabet Abu Rass joined The Abraham Initiatives as co-Executive Director in April 2014 with a rich background in civil society organizations. Thabet is a political geographer and an expert in land and planning; he obtained a PhD in the field of Geography and Regional Development from the University of Arizona in the United States in 1997. He teaches courses on ethnic relations, land, urban planning, and regional development at Ben Gurion University and Sapir College. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several environmental and Jewish-Arab educational organizations. He has been the co-chair of the board of Hand In Hand, the bilingual schools in Israel, and is the Co-founder of AEJI, the Association of Environmental Justice in Israel.

Michal Aviad, an award winning documentary and narrative filmmaker, was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Aviad is a senior faculty member at Tel Aviv University’s Tisch School of Cinema. Her critically acclaimed films include Acting Our Age (87), Jenny and Jenny (97), Invisible (11), and Dimona Twist (16).

Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a Contributor to The Atlantic, a Senior Columnist at The Forward and a CNN Political Commentator. He has published several books including The Crisis of Zionism, which was published by Times Books in 2012.

Beinart has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Newsweek, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association.

Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen is the Senior Director of NIF’s NY / Tri-State Region. Prior to joining NIF, she was Director of The Center for Jewish Living and The David H. Sonabend Center for Israel at JCC Manhattan. Rabbi Cohen served for a decade at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s LGBTQ synagogue serving Jews of all sexual orientations and sexual identities.

Halil Efrat is an Israeli American editor and director. His works include Trophy (Sundance 2017), Aida’s Secrets, Souvenirs (2006 award winner San Francisco, IDFA), Sweet Mud (Sundance 2007, Berlinale 2007), and Album 61 (Best Director Jerusalem IFF 2013). He currently lives and works in Brooklyn and is the founder of Roshem LLC, an editing and post production studio.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1982, Tamara Erde is a French-Israeli filmmaker based out of Paris. She holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and a second master’s degree from the Fresnoy school in France. Tamara creates in various mediums, ranging from documentary and fiction films, to dance performances and video installations. Her work has been shown at major film festivals as well as theaters and galleries.

Wiley Jawhary is making his acting debut in the short film Tzeva Adom: Color Red, playing the troubled teenager Nadeem. Wiley was born in the United States but his parents are both from Lebanon. Wiley enjoys blogging, photography and playing basketball. He is also the director of his community Lebanese Youth Organization.